The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
‘O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!’

The Owl and the Pussycat, by Edward Lear

‘Music’ was a difficult topic for me, simply because it gave me so many ideas that I don’t have the skills to draw! Failed attempts include a Kanye West caricature, belly dancer and the music accompaniment for a Chinese lion dance. I did a similar sketch to this final one for today’s lunchdoodle topic – ‘boat’, and decided to rework it to include the details I’d left out due to only half remembering the rhyme.

I decided to submit my last IF illustration to Threadless! This is my first time submitting, so please be gentle :) I’m not too hopeful considering the incredible work that tends to get through, but it would be really wonderful to see my design on a t-shirt!

For those not familiar with Threadless, artists and designers can submit artwork to the website which is then voted on by the public for the next 7 days. The Threadless staff then look at the top designs and choose some for printing. I’m a big fan, but never really had the courage to put up a design for voting until now. So you see, if there’s enough of a positive response to my design it could go through, which is why it would really really help me if you go and vote it up. Please?

Three grey elephants balancing
Step by step on a piece of string
Thought it was such a wonderful stunt
They called for another elephant!

I suppose this isn’t perfectly to theme because they are balancing quite nicely so far… but will it last?

Illustration done for this week’s Illustration Friday topic: unbalanced. The elephants were done in Illustrator and put together with textures in Photoshop. Wall texture from cgtextures.com. This song is very nostalgic for me, I used to love the shadow puppet version on Playschool!